Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HFSPLus driver for Linux 2.6. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:13:32 +1100 |
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On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dylan Griffiths <dylang+kernel@thock.com> wrote: > > > > I don't remember where I grabbed this driver, I only know it's much > > more current than the one at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus. > > Sorry, that's a showstopper. We need to understand who the maintenance > team is, and evaluate their preparedness to maintain this code long-term. > > We don't want to be adding yet another rarely-used filesystem which has no > visible maintenance team.
It's a not-that-rarely used filesystem actually :) Been in my tree for a few monthes and it's used by pmac users either for iPod's or for accessing the MacOS X partitions.
It's written & maintained by Roman Zippel, and the latest snapshot is available at http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ but you probably want to ask Roman if it's really the latest version before merging :)
One thing we absolutely need too is a port of Apple's fsck for HFS+, currently, the driver will refuse to mount read/write a "dirty" HFS+ filesystem to avoid corruption, but that means we have to reboot MacOS to fsck it then... But that limitation shouldn't prevent merging it.
I suppose it may be good to also merge Roman's cleanup/rewrite of the old HFS filesytem...
Ben.
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